But Incognito, a two-time Pro Bowl guard now with the Bills, said he has declined to speak to accuser Jonathan Martin and is still searching for what can be learned from the national sports scandal that nearly cost him his career.

"I'm still searching for the lesson in all of it," said Incognito, who was suspended from the NFL for the final eight games of 2013.

"There was what happened in the media, and there was actually what happened. Only me, Jonathan Martin, and the guys in that locker room know exactly what happened. As far as the lesson, it's tough."

Incognito spoke to South Florida reporters on a conference call Wednesday ahead of Buffalo's game against the Dolphins on Sunday at Hard Rock Stadium.

He was a central figure in what became widely known as the Bullygate scandal. According to a 144-page report produced by NFL investigator Ted Wells, Martin -- then a Dolphins offensive lineman -- was subjected to "a pattern of harassment" that included racial slurs and vicious sexual taunts about his mother and sister by three teammates.

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Incognito was viewed as the ring leader of the alleged harassment, which led to Martin quitting the team seven games into the 2013 season after a lunch room incident in which a table full of players got up when Martin arrived.

Incognito was accused of creating a hostile work environment for Martin, whom the Dolphins traded to San Francisco the following offseason for a seventh-round pick. As a result of Wells' report, Incognito went unsigned in 2014 and was out of the league that entire year.

The Bills signed him in 2015 and helped him "re-establish himself in the league," Incognito said.

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Incognito put together a Pro Bowl season last year, re-signed win Buffalo on a three-year deal worth $15.75 million, and he's off to another impressive start in 2016. The 10th-year veteran is still viewed as one of the NFL's top guards, and he's still working to move past Bullygate.

"It was nuts," Incognito said about his life during that period. "It got turned upside down."

Incognito said Martin, who retired from football before the 2015 season, has reached out to him a few times, but Incognito hasn't been motivated to have a conversation with him.

Incognito said the information Martin and his camp put out about their friendship and interaction made him a "pariah" and "radioactive."

Incognito still says that he and Martin were close friends, but that the saga they went through was a product of Martin's "demons." Martin, the Dolphins' 2012 second-round pick, battled depression from childhood.

"I think the story has kind of played itself out. Jonathan and I were close friends. I cared about him. If anybody was there for Jonathan it was me. Jonathan had his troubles. He had his demons, like we all do," Incognito said. "He left for whatever reason and he handled it the way he did. Then the story takes on a life of it's own.

"There's the narrative that Jonathan Martin and his camp want you to believe, and there is what me, Mike Pouncey, John Jerry, Jim Turner, Joe Philbin know that happened," Incognito continued, citing the key figures in the bullying scandal. "I can sleep good at night knowing what happened and what my actions were. I'm not saying I was a saint. But I sleep well at night knowing what I did."